phase: 172_thinking_level

All verification complete. Final report:

**Phase 172 final verification pass — all tasks (01–05) were already complete; verified the whole phase, no code fixes needed.**

- **Verified implementation:** `Settings.llm_thinking_level: str = "low"` + `CATALOG` row (`LLM (aipi)` / "Thinking level", plain: not secret/restart/overridable-exempt) + `.env.example` line under `BOR_LLM_CHAT_MODEL` + README table row; `_thinking_extra_body()` → `reasoning_effort` via `extra_body` on `chat()` + `chat_stream()` when trimmed-non-empty, key absent (byte-identical) when empty, embeddings untouched; per-turn line gains `thinking=<value>` (`-` when empty) before `thinking_chars`.
- **Tests/lint/coverage (all green):** `uv run pytest` → 4084 passed · `uv run pytest --cov=app --cov-report=term-missing` → 4084 passed, `app/` **99%** (>90%) · `uv run ruff check .` → All checks passed · `uv run pyright` → 0 errors, 0 warnings.
- **Completion criteria:** (1) `pytest -k "config and thinking"` 4 passed + `.env.example` grep ✓ (2) live `GET /api/admin/settings` curl shows the row (str, `low`, `default`) + integration PUT/DELETE round-trip ✓ (3) 9 mocked-client unit tests assert `extra_body` present/absent ✓ (4) log-line tests assert `low`/`high`/`-`/whitespace ✓ (5) suite + coverage + lint ✓ (6) `test_thinking_level.py` 3/3 in isolation; `test_admin_settings_panel.py` 12/12; `test_admin_settings_layout.py` 5/5 ✓ (7) atomic commit + phase move = the harness's job (task files already in `complete/`; I ran no git index/history commands).
- **Documentation:** README.md reviewed in full — verified consistent (env table complete vs `.env.example`, catalog restart/non-overridable claims re-verified at runtime); AGENTS.md reviewed in full — verified consistent (no rule affected, A5 = no UI change). No changes needed. **Flag (not fixable here):** PLAN.md §9's per-turn-line spec predates the phase-172 `thinking=` field; PLAN.md is off-limits per protocol.
- **Next pending phase:** none — `todo/` contains only phase 172 (the harness moves it on this pass's success).

tests/unit/test_settings_catalog.py

@@ -93,6 +93,21 @@ def test_env_var_is_bare_key_upper_prefixed() -> None:
         assert env_var(key).startswith("BOR_")
 
 
+def test_llm_thinking_level_is_a_plain_live_overridable_row() -> None:
+    """Phase 172 (task 01): the new ``llm_thinking_level`` pair sits in
+    ``LLM (aipi)`` with the ``Thinking level`` label and is plain —
+    not ``secret`` (a free-form text value, like ``llm_chat_model``),
+    not ``restart_required`` (the LLM client reads the setting per
+    request via ``get_settings()`` — live), overridable (the overlay is
+    generic over ``str`` fields)."""
+    meta = CATALOG["llm_thinking_level"]
+    assert meta.group == "LLM (aipi)"
+    assert meta.label == "Thinking level"
+    assert "llm_thinking_level" not in SECRETS
+    assert "llm_thinking_level" not in RESTART_REQUIRED
+    assert "llm_thinking_level" not in NON_OVERRIDABLE
+
+
 def test_labels_nonempty_and_unique() -> None:
     labels = [meta.label for meta in CATALOG.values()]
     assert all(label.strip() for label in labels), "empty label in the catalogue"